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Volume XC, Number 30 University of Southern California Thursday, March 19, 1981
MORLEY SAFER
Journalist talks on politics, news
Library receives documents on university from CIA
By Katy Smith
Staff Writer
Last week Doheny Library received several Central Intelligence Agency documents relating to the university which were applied for in 1978 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Julie Johnson, head of Government Documents, requested on behalf of the university, “copies of all substantive records — regardless of physical form or characteristics — pertaining to USC made or received by the CIA," to be used for research purposes.
The CIA only sent the library 50 out of 84 items they found because, they said, the rest for various reasons were exempted from the FOIA.
Most of the exempted documents were letters to or from the USSR intercepted by the CIA between I957 and 1967, which are classified as personal documents.
The CIA denied access to three items “in the interest of the national defense or foreign policy.”
The majority of the items which were received with the file were form letters and correspondence with faculty members involved in recruiting and training programs. Many of their names were deleted as disclosure would “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Among the recruiting papers was an article headlined “CIA recruiting: looking for the right students" by Kent Schoknecht and published by the Daily Trojan in March 1977.
Also included was a recruiting advertisement for engineering and foreign language graduates which ran in the Daily Trojan February
1978.
The most recent items included in the file were two editorials, published by the Los Angeles Times in 1979, discussing the controversial university Middle East Center.
Johnson made the request in response to a student's inquiry as to whether documents the CIA had, if any, were available under FOIA.
The FOIA was passed in 1976 to force the release of documents concerning war activities and consumer groups.
“Anyone can apply for government documents," stressed Johnson.
The procedure for obtaining government documents under the FOIA is outlined in "The Code of Federal Regulations", which even gives the addresses to write to in any department.
“I was surprised they would even try to fulfill my request as it was so vague." Johnson said.
The CIA said it took almost three years, where their first estimate was six months, to collect the documents because of a backlog of requests.
The administration has to decide whether to appeal for the denied documents which would involve going to court.
Anyone interested in the documents can check them out for two weeks in the library government documents department with a valid library card or a drivers license.
By Eric Vincent
Staff Writer
Morley Safer, news correspondent with the CBS television news program 60 Minutes discussed his career and the present state of the journalism profession in an appearance Tuesday night at Annenberg Auditorium.
Safer spoke before a standing room only crowd of nearly 300. Almost 200 people were forced to stand or sit in the aisles. Ironically a film was being screened in Norris Cinema Theater at the same time, which is adjacent to Annenberg Auditorium, with only about 100
people in attendance. Norris Theater can accommodate up to 300 people.
Safer was introduced by Karl Fleming, the managing editor of KNXT television, who described Safer as the best writer in television news today — “a man of discipline. restraint, grace, dignity — a reporter’s reporter."
“I have spent time in about a dozen wars in the last 25 years and I’ve dealt with assassins, urban guerrillas and axe murderers. But nothing is so terrifying or uncertain for a reporter as coming to a place of higher education with a
mission of telling people the way of the world," Safer said as an introduction to his talk.
As such, he limited his speech to
30 minutes, spending the remainder of the time answering questions from the audience.
Safer called journalism the most pompous of all professions. “I’m not suggesting that the newsrooms are populated with people with delusions of being Jesus Christ or Ted Baxter or Lou Grant or Barbara Walters, just a rather pleasant combination of all of them.”
“Probably the most sobering statistic I’ve ever heard is that most people in this country get all of their news from television," Safer said.
In this regard, he complimented the quality of network news programs as being excellent. Flowever. as the length of a network newscast is only 22 and one-half minutes in real time, the quantity of news that can be delivered is limited.
“It is something less than the front page of a newspaper and. if your newspaper is like mine, it can’t get all the front page news on the front page.”
On 60 Minutes there is more time for stories, and thus, they are able to do more with them. Safer said.
In anticipation of a commonly asked question. Safer said that since he joined the program in 1970, there has only been one time in which he was asked not to do a story.
However, he assured the audience that neither the government. industry, nor the network have forced him not to do a story.
“If there were only a suggestion of that kind of pressure, it would only serve to whet our appetites.”
Safer also spoke about the role of journalism in politics and in
particular, the coverage of the President.
“Administrations may boast that they give great access, that it
is an open administration, that it allows cameras in to record a day in the life of the President."
(Continued on page 2)
60 Minutes’ co-editor recalls days as foreign correspondent
By John R. Lamb
Assistant City Editor
Morley was, I think, just a little more clear-eyed and a little less taken in by official propaganda than was anyone else in the broadcast media during the Vietnam war.
—Arthur Langguth, professor of journalism
Winding his way back through the darkened campus streets to his room at the University Hilton, Morley Safer appeared tired but nonetheless willing to talk about his journalistic experiences.
A stocky man with sparkling, expressive eyes and a speaking style to match. Safer recalled his days as a foreign correspondent; a time when he covered the battlefields of Africa, the Middle East and also Vietnam, where he introduced the concept of “the living room war” to the American public.
"No, I have no regrets about (bringing the Vietnam war to television)," Safer said in between puffs on his cigarette. “I think war is much too serious to be left to the imagination.
“I think the uneasiness in the country (about the war being fought) made what they watched on television seem even more tragic."
Now one of five coeditors on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, Safer had mixed feelings about returning to the battlefield as a journalist should another war break out.
“I don't know," Safer said. “I guess every once in a while — with El Salvador or the Middle East — I get these little twinges of (wanting to return).”
The reporter also elaborated on an incident that occurred in 1961 while he was covering the construction of the Berlin Wall.
(Continued on page 15)
Star reporter plays role on campus
‘Lou Grant’ episode filmed near Alumni Park
By Wendell Mobley
The university became, the set for an episode of the television series, Lou Grant, yesterday.
The background for the episode required a large university called L.A.U. Robert Lieu, director of photography for the show, said the episode used three locations on the campus, all in the vicinity of Alumni Park.
The part of the episode filmed on the university's campus will serve as a subplot for the hour long show.
The episode is entitled “Stroke," in which Mrs. Pynchon. the publisher of the newspaper, has a stroke. Nancy Marchand plays Pynchon.
The subplot deals with a student named “Dana," who was chosen to model nude for a centerfold. The university (L.A.U.) finds out about it and terminates her scholarships. Dana is played by Victoria Johnson. Billie
0 Newman, the redheaded reporter, puts her investigative
1 style to work. Newman is played by Linda Kelsey.
o Kelsey was the only regularly appearing member of " the cast who was at the filming yesterday.
-» In an interview between scenes, the actress said she
doesn't desire to be a reporter in real life. “I’m not a jj good writer," she explained. “It’s just not a way I £ would express myself.”
~ Kelsey said she thinks she portrays a reporter
realistically. "At least, other reporters say I do," she remarked. The actress said everything portrayed on the
show about news gathering and writing isn't realistic, however. “What we do her? is a fallacy. In reality, you don't always get good quotes and things don't always go right."
The actress gave several reasons for the program's continual success. "It's intelligent. It I Lou Grant) appeals to real people’s sensitivities. It portrays the working people and it’s topical — that is, it's about things that are happening.”
Kelsey said she has plenty of room to be creative when she plays Billie Newman. “I can express myself," she said. “I'm not just Billie."
The series has left a wake in its past four years on the air. Last year the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded the program five Emmys. The Awards were given for the best drama series; the best actor (Ed Asner); the best actress (Nancy Marchand); best director (Roger Young) and the writer’s award (Seth Freeman).
Lieu, who graduated from the university in 1966 with a master’s degree in cinema, said the program is entirely filmed in Los Angeles. "Once there was a scene that was supposed to take place in Hawaii. We filmed it beside a hotel pool in the Valley." Lieu said this is his second season with Lou Grant.
Lou Grant, a Mary Tyler Moore production, appears on CBS Mondays at 10 p.m.
The episode will air in approximately six weeks.
LINDA KELSEY

trojan
Volume XC, Number 30 University of Southern California Thursday, March 19, 1981
MORLEY SAFER
Journalist talks on politics, news
Library receives documents on university from CIA
By Katy Smith
Staff Writer
Last week Doheny Library received several Central Intelligence Agency documents relating to the university which were applied for in 1978 under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Julie Johnson, head of Government Documents, requested on behalf of the university, “copies of all substantive records — regardless of physical form or characteristics — pertaining to USC made or received by the CIA," to be used for research purposes.
The CIA only sent the library 50 out of 84 items they found because, they said, the rest for various reasons were exempted from the FOIA.
Most of the exempted documents were letters to or from the USSR intercepted by the CIA between I957 and 1967, which are classified as personal documents.
The CIA denied access to three items “in the interest of the national defense or foreign policy.”
The majority of the items which were received with the file were form letters and correspondence with faculty members involved in recruiting and training programs. Many of their names were deleted as disclosure would “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Among the recruiting papers was an article headlined “CIA recruiting: looking for the right students" by Kent Schoknecht and published by the Daily Trojan in March 1977.
Also included was a recruiting advertisement for engineering and foreign language graduates which ran in the Daily Trojan February
1978.
The most recent items included in the file were two editorials, published by the Los Angeles Times in 1979, discussing the controversial university Middle East Center.
Johnson made the request in response to a student's inquiry as to whether documents the CIA had, if any, were available under FOIA.
The FOIA was passed in 1976 to force the release of documents concerning war activities and consumer groups.
“Anyone can apply for government documents," stressed Johnson.
The procedure for obtaining government documents under the FOIA is outlined in "The Code of Federal Regulations", which even gives the addresses to write to in any department.
“I was surprised they would even try to fulfill my request as it was so vague." Johnson said.
The CIA said it took almost three years, where their first estimate was six months, to collect the documents because of a backlog of requests.
The administration has to decide whether to appeal for the denied documents which would involve going to court.
Anyone interested in the documents can check them out for two weeks in the library government documents department with a valid library card or a drivers license.
By Eric Vincent
Staff Writer
Morley Safer, news correspondent with the CBS television news program 60 Minutes discussed his career and the present state of the journalism profession in an appearance Tuesday night at Annenberg Auditorium.
Safer spoke before a standing room only crowd of nearly 300. Almost 200 people were forced to stand or sit in the aisles. Ironically a film was being screened in Norris Cinema Theater at the same time, which is adjacent to Annenberg Auditorium, with only about 100
people in attendance. Norris Theater can accommodate up to 300 people.
Safer was introduced by Karl Fleming, the managing editor of KNXT television, who described Safer as the best writer in television news today — “a man of discipline. restraint, grace, dignity — a reporter’s reporter."
“I have spent time in about a dozen wars in the last 25 years and I’ve dealt with assassins, urban guerrillas and axe murderers. But nothing is so terrifying or uncertain for a reporter as coming to a place of higher education with a
mission of telling people the way of the world," Safer said as an introduction to his talk.
As such, he limited his speech to
30 minutes, spending the remainder of the time answering questions from the audience.
Safer called journalism the most pompous of all professions. “I’m not suggesting that the newsrooms are populated with people with delusions of being Jesus Christ or Ted Baxter or Lou Grant or Barbara Walters, just a rather pleasant combination of all of them.”
“Probably the most sobering statistic I’ve ever heard is that most people in this country get all of their news from television," Safer said.
In this regard, he complimented the quality of network news programs as being excellent. Flowever. as the length of a network newscast is only 22 and one-half minutes in real time, the quantity of news that can be delivered is limited.
“It is something less than the front page of a newspaper and. if your newspaper is like mine, it can’t get all the front page news on the front page.”
On 60 Minutes there is more time for stories, and thus, they are able to do more with them. Safer said.
In anticipation of a commonly asked question. Safer said that since he joined the program in 1970, there has only been one time in which he was asked not to do a story.
However, he assured the audience that neither the government. industry, nor the network have forced him not to do a story.
“If there were only a suggestion of that kind of pressure, it would only serve to whet our appetites.”
Safer also spoke about the role of journalism in politics and in
particular, the coverage of the President.
“Administrations may boast that they give great access, that it
is an open administration, that it allows cameras in to record a day in the life of the President."
(Continued on page 2)
60 Minutes’ co-editor recalls days as foreign correspondent
By John R. Lamb
Assistant City Editor
Morley was, I think, just a little more clear-eyed and a little less taken in by official propaganda than was anyone else in the broadcast media during the Vietnam war.
—Arthur Langguth, professor of journalism
Winding his way back through the darkened campus streets to his room at the University Hilton, Morley Safer appeared tired but nonetheless willing to talk about his journalistic experiences.
A stocky man with sparkling, expressive eyes and a speaking style to match. Safer recalled his days as a foreign correspondent; a time when he covered the battlefields of Africa, the Middle East and also Vietnam, where he introduced the concept of “the living room war” to the American public.
"No, I have no regrets about (bringing the Vietnam war to television)," Safer said in between puffs on his cigarette. “I think war is much too serious to be left to the imagination.
“I think the uneasiness in the country (about the war being fought) made what they watched on television seem even more tragic."
Now one of five coeditors on the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes, Safer had mixed feelings about returning to the battlefield as a journalist should another war break out.
“I don't know," Safer said. “I guess every once in a while — with El Salvador or the Middle East — I get these little twinges of (wanting to return).”
The reporter also elaborated on an incident that occurred in 1961 while he was covering the construction of the Berlin Wall.
(Continued on page 15)
Star reporter plays role on campus
‘Lou Grant’ episode filmed near Alumni Park
By Wendell Mobley
The university became, the set for an episode of the television series, Lou Grant, yesterday.
The background for the episode required a large university called L.A.U. Robert Lieu, director of photography for the show, said the episode used three locations on the campus, all in the vicinity of Alumni Park.
The part of the episode filmed on the university's campus will serve as a subplot for the hour long show.
The episode is entitled “Stroke," in which Mrs. Pynchon. the publisher of the newspaper, has a stroke. Nancy Marchand plays Pynchon.
The subplot deals with a student named “Dana," who was chosen to model nude for a centerfold. The university (L.A.U.) finds out about it and terminates her scholarships. Dana is played by Victoria Johnson. Billie
0 Newman, the redheaded reporter, puts her investigative
1 style to work. Newman is played by Linda Kelsey.
o Kelsey was the only regularly appearing member of " the cast who was at the filming yesterday.
-» In an interview between scenes, the actress said she
doesn't desire to be a reporter in real life. “I’m not a jj good writer," she explained. “It’s just not a way I £ would express myself.”
~ Kelsey said she thinks she portrays a reporter
realistically. "At least, other reporters say I do," she remarked. The actress said everything portrayed on the
show about news gathering and writing isn't realistic, however. “What we do her? is a fallacy. In reality, you don't always get good quotes and things don't always go right."
The actress gave several reasons for the program's continual success. "It's intelligent. It I Lou Grant) appeals to real people’s sensitivities. It portrays the working people and it’s topical — that is, it's about things that are happening.”
Kelsey said she has plenty of room to be creative when she plays Billie Newman. “I can express myself," she said. “I'm not just Billie."
The series has left a wake in its past four years on the air. Last year the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded the program five Emmys. The Awards were given for the best drama series; the best actor (Ed Asner); the best actress (Nancy Marchand); best director (Roger Young) and the writer’s award (Seth Freeman).
Lieu, who graduated from the university in 1966 with a master’s degree in cinema, said the program is entirely filmed in Los Angeles. "Once there was a scene that was supposed to take place in Hawaii. We filmed it beside a hotel pool in the Valley." Lieu said this is his second season with Lou Grant.
Lou Grant, a Mary Tyler Moore production, appears on CBS Mondays at 10 p.m.
The episode will air in approximately six weeks.
LINDA KELSEY